Walking Dead opens season 3 with Mega-Ratings

Walking Dead is on of the most popular shows on television right now, and it’s Seasons 3 premiere proved it.

Shattering basic-cables previous ratings, the AMC-series opened Sunday night with a huge numbers, pulling in 10.3 Million viewers. That’s up 50% from the season 2 premiere and even 1 million higher than the finale in March.

“Thank you to the fans for making The Walking Dead such a tremendous success. We are honored and humbled that television’s largest adult audience resides on AMC. So many people on both sides of the camera worked tirelessly on this project, and I thank and congratulate each of them for their amazing contribution,” AMC president Charlie Collier said Monday.